Girl

Girl

A girl is any female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood when she becomes a woman. The term may also be used to mean a young woman.

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Famous quotes containing the word girl:

    “How can I, that girl standing there,
    My attention fix
    On Roman or on Russian
    Or on Spanish politics?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “I was
    the girl of the chain letter,
    the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes,
    the one of the telephone bills,
    the wrinkled photo and the lost connections....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Rosalind. There’s a girl goes before the priest, and
    certainly a woman’s thought runs before her actions.
    Orlando. So do all thoughts, they are winged.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)